This app used to be so easy to find an event and just show up. Now they made the app very difficult to navigate. It's not so much a learning curve, it's bad flow to gather information. And clobbered with ways to get your money...I get they need to make money, but to ask me to join EVERY time I open an event is messed up. And it's full of online events that I constantly have to reset the filter on to hide. It's such a headache to use, I open it, try to find something then just close it. Awful.
About the app
Pursue your interests with people who share them, both online and in person. With over 60 million members, Meetup helps you build a career network, discover a tech community, create a personal brand, make time for your hobbies, and meet friends who share similar interests.
Easily meet people you know youโll get along with and create groups of friends that will be as excited as you to embrace your hobbies, participate in online or local events or engage in discussions. Download the Meetup app and host your own events or join one of the 100,000 Meetup events with new people happening every week.
Discover local and online events
๐ฅ Meet new people and get matched with over 330,000 groups and friends based on your network of interests, from tech conferences to free yoga and everything in-between
๐บ Explore online or local events by category, search by keyword, or see whatโs popular in your area with a map
๐ Save events youโre interested in and come back to them later. Pick and choose the people and friends you want to meet at all the events that you like
๐ฃ Have discussions with the people you meet and use direct messaging to stay in touch with your new friends
๐ Meet people who are interested in the same local or online events, create new groups of friends and expand your online network
Start a group
๐ Host your own events online and in person by creating a group on your favorite topic, and meet friends who wants to participate
๐ค Watch your community of friends and network of people grow as your group is recommended to interested people and potential new friends to meet
๐ Easily personalize and schedule events on-the-go, and manage your group from anywhere
๐ฌ Keep the momentum going between events by sharing photos and using discussions and instant messaging to connect with the people and friends in your group that you are keen to meet
Get in touch with questions or suggestions: [email protected]
In order to recommend Meetup events that are hosted by local groups, we use your device's precise location (GPS and network-based).
Meetup: Social Events & Groups
information
Description
Easily meet people you know youโll get along with and create groups of friends that will be as excited as you to embrace your hobbies, participate in online or local events or engage in discussions. Download the Meetup app and host your own events or join one of the 100,000 Meetup events with new people happening every week.
Discover local and online events
๐ฅ Meet new people and get matched with over 330,000 groups and friends based on your network of interests, from tech conferences to free yoga and everything in-between
๐บ Explore online or local events by category, search by keyword, or see whatโs popular in your area with a map
๐ Save events youโre interested in and come back to them later. Pick and choose the people and friends you want to meet at all the events that you like
๐ฃ Have discussions with the people you meet and use direct messaging to stay in touch with your new friends
๐ Meet people who are interested in the same local or online events, create new groups of friends and expand your online network
Start a group
๐ Host your own events online and in person by creating a group on your favorite topic, and meet friends who wants to participate
๐ค Watch your community of friends and network of people grow as your group is recommended to interested people and potential new friends to meet
๐ Easily personalize and schedule events on-the-go, and manage your group from anywhere
๐ฌ Keep the momentum going between events by sharing photos and using discussions and instant messaging to connect with the people and friends in your group that you are keen to meet
Get in touch with questions or suggestions: [email protected]
In order to recommend Meetup events that are hosted by local groups, we use your device's precise location (GPS and network-based).
Updated
2025-04-30
Ratings and reviews
Update 01/2025: going to the group page no longer shows "about this group." It's just a tiny arrow to open the section. Going to an event, the same thing happens with the description. Leading to unnecessary questions, or unprepared event participants. OP: I've tried to be patient through the changes, but this app is barely functional. Comments cannot be replied to; the map just puts in whatever address it wants. And I'm paying to organize so that the app can get my members lost. Top notch.
search bar is useless now. I don't know what happened but suddenly the search bar will not find anything in my state! My location is on! but everything is in newyork I DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE! it's a cluster but no matter what I do this thing can't seem to find ANYTHING near me only recently! Before this everything was fine and there's NO filter filter out NYC
Extremely slow, & buggy at times. For being mostly a text based app with few graphics, Meetup is annoyingly slow. Group pages & events take too long to load even when connected to strong wifi. Sometimes events dated for 2 days way say "happening tomorrow". In the past year, it started adding annoying pop up ads after you RSVP to an event, as well as popups to rate previously attended events. I've not found a way to turn off any of these options. Overall it seems updates don't make improvements
The ability to create and find local meetups is awesome and worth 2+ stars. But the app itself is buggy, frequently freezes or doesn't load, and they recently put many features behind paywall: seeing new ppl attending events (makes new ppl/events awkward not knowing name/face, maybe even dangerous), seeing groups ppl are in (makes discovery difficult). The paid user ad pops up Every.Single.Time you look at attendees and many other things. After 2min on the app I just got the popup 6 times.
The app has worked very well so far, but recently I am unable to login on the app and have to use the web version, my information works when entering it on web but says that my app version doesn't work at all. It's making it impossible to use and keep up with the current events in my area and I have emailed the developers twice since this started with absolutely no answer. There are others I know of with the same issue I'm having.
I've been using this app for years. It used to be a simple, functional scrolling list. Now you have to look at a slow-loading picture fo every single Meetup as if you are a two-year old and can't decide on an event without a big, pretty fake ad/photo to go with it. I guess Marketing has to justify its existence, but this is so hamfisted. It makes the app so hard to use. Go back to simple and functional.
Meetup 2021-05-20
Hi there, Thank you for your review. We'd love to learn more about your experience using our app. Please fill out this quick 3 question survey: https://meetu.ps/3lLPXT